New Cable UI is Horrible

New Cable UI is Horrible

Our cable boxes updated a couple of nights ago to a new User Interface and if it was possible for Charters UI to get any worse it did! Can't find shows on demand, finding DVR'd shows takes much longer now that they aren't grouped in folders by show. Is there anyway to go back to the old interface?

Re: New Cable UI is Horrible

Our cable boxes updated a couple of nights ago to a new User Interface and if it was possible for Charters UI to get any worse it did! Can't find shows on demand, finding DVR'd shows takes much longer now that they aren't grouped in folders by show. Is there anyway to go back to the old interface?

Hi Andrew,

Can you post for us some screen shots? Different areas have different guides. Where are you located (City, State, and Zip.) This will help us determine the next step.

I am in Wisconsin, and on July 17th around 12:30am, which was a Tuesday, my box rebooted, and it went back to a program guide that was much more basic on the older boxes. Tuesday mornings between 12am-5am are the times when Spectrum most often does network updates. I lost the advanced search, cover art, Video On Demand, and the DVR management screens went back to the older guide. A reboot of the box brought the new guide back. My box is a Cisco 9865.

The newer guides and boxes are cloud-based, and sometimes when the network goes down after a failed software update, the boxes can revert back to the old guide menus.

I will be able to tell by looking at your screenshots if the same thing happened to you. If that is the case, a reboot of the equipment should bring back the modern guide and search. BUT, if your screen looks different in some other way, the reboot may not do anything. I need to see the following:

Re: New Cable UI is Horrible

i hate the way they have done the channels it's nonsense to me. i would really like it if they put the actual channel logo up instead of a bunch of letters that no one in there right mind can read and understand

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i can't belive that there setting people up with just dual tuner DVR'S with no whole home service. i thought that was the standard 10 years ago. i would really love to see spectrum come out with a dvr that blows the compitition away. like being able to recrod 16 shows at once skipping through the ad's without have to sit there holding down the FF button being able to hookup bluetooth headphones would be nice to along with voice commands!!! and a UI that one can understand with the channel logo's up instead of a bunch of abreviations